Thread: Traffic Shaping
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Old 31-03-2006, 21:27   #48
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Re: Traffic Shaping

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Originally Posted by Rob C
I wonder how traffic shaping of P2P stuff relates to the Bittorent trial
The one backed with Caching servers from Cachelogic?

Those caches both serve subscribers on the network AND subscribers off the network. They can impersonate normal users, so that someone off network rather than downloading off you instead downloads off a Cachelogic box pretending to be you.

The result of this is of course that ntl save on upstream capacity on the cable network. You aren't uploading because a caching server is doing your uploading for you. You aren't costing them as much in off-network traffic as you're doing at least some of your downloading from the caching server.

Traffic shaping in this instance can eliminate the need to use WCCP or another load balancing protocol, the traffic shaping kit can transparently redirect your traffic to the caches to achieve the above results.
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